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Hellmuth's advice (from "Play Poker Like the Pros") is very useful to an absolute beginning poker player, but is not a winning strategy. He's basically teaching a weak/tight style of poker, meaning that you play very few hands & wait for a real monster before getting a lot of chips into the pot. As I said, that's a good strategy for a rank beginner, as it avoids getting him into as many trouble spots & will usually result in him going deeper in a tournament than he would otherwise. The problems are two-fold--first of all, that you so rarely get those great starting hands & even more rarely connect hard with the flop, and second of all, that this is perhaps the easiest playing style for a good opponent to exploit.

You'd do very well to forget most of what Hellmuth said in that book, and instead take a read through the Harrington on Hold'em series (probably the best books available on NLHE tournament play).